JP2009303083A - Conference support system and conference support method - Google Patents

Abstract

A large-scale system configuration is not required, and information necessary for a conference can be presented to all conference participants regardless of their seating positions.
In a participant terminal TM1 to TMn, support screen data is displayed, information data to be shared is specified on the support screen by a drag & drop operation or the like, and this is set on a display destination screen setting window SW1. When pasted on SW4, a display request command including the specified sharing target information data and the ID information of the display destination screen is generated, and this display request command is transmitted to the display control server SV. On the other hand, when the display control server SV receives a display request command including new information data, the display destination screen is designated based on the ID information of the display destination screen included in the display request command. The new information data is projected onto the screen by the projector PJ.
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Description

  The present invention relates to a conference support system and a conference support method having a function for sharing information of a computer terminal used by each conference participant among a plurality of conference participants in a conference room.

  As a system to support the conference, a system that displays information necessary for the conference, such as conference materials displayed or stored on the computer terminals brought by the conference participants, on a large screen installed in the conference room is proposed. Has been. However, in this type of conventional system, since one server device performs all processing, the entire system becomes large and it is difficult to construct an inexpensive system. In addition, since it takes time to retrieve target information from a large amount of information stored in the computer terminal and selectively display it, display delay and waiting time for operation will increase as the number of connected computer terminals increases. There was also a problem that was long.

  Therefore, for example, conference materials such as letters, photos, and videos used by the conference participants in the conference are stored in advance in the storage device of the system, and keywords are extracted from the utterances during the conference using voice recognition technology. There has been proposed a system in which meeting materials corresponding to the extracted keywords are read from the storage device and projected and displayed on a table surrounded by meeting participants (see, for example, Non-Patent Document 1).

Yasuhiro Nakamo et al., “Analysis of Remote Communication by Image Stimulation on Table Top”, Human Interface Symposium 2006 Proceedings 2, pp.695-700,2006

  In general, in order to share information of each person at a conference and efficiently perform cooperative work, it is necessary to display the information so that all the conference participants face each other upside down. However, in the conventional proposed system, information such as conference materials is projected and displayed on the conference table. Therefore, when a plurality of conference participants surround the table, the projected information may vary depending on the seating position. The heavens and the earth are reversed. For this reason, the visibility of information is deteriorated for some conference participants, and it becomes difficult to understand the contents of the information or to speak, so it is difficult to proceed with the cooperative work.

  The present invention has been made paying attention to the above circumstances, and its purpose is not to require a large-scale system configuration and to provide information necessary for the conference to all conference participants regardless of their seating positions. It is an object of the present invention to provide a conference support system and a conference support method that can be presented face-to-face and thereby improve the efficiency of the conference.

In order to achieve the above object, one aspect of the present invention provides a plurality of computer terminals used by a plurality of conference participants seated in a conference room, and a plurality of display media arranged on different wall surfaces in the conference room. A display device for displaying information, and a display control device connectable to each of the plurality of computer terminals and the display device via transmission media, respectively,
In the plurality of computer terminals, the support screen data for supporting the designation operation of the information to be shared by the conference participants and the designation operation of the information indicating the display destination are generated and displayed on the display unit of the computer terminal. Based on the information indicating the relationship between the seating positions of the conference participants and the positions of the plurality of display media, information indicating the positions and orientations of the conference participants is generated, and the generated information is used as the support screen data. Superimposed and displayed on the display unit. Then, according to the designated operation of the conference participant based on the displayed support screen, the corresponding sharing target information is acquired, the information indicating the display destination of the sharing target information is recognized, and the acquired Information to be shared and information indicating the display destination are transmitted to the display control apparatus via the transmission medium. In addition, when an input of a display stop instruction for the information to be shared by a conference participant is received, information representing the display stop instruction is transmitted to the display control apparatus via a transmission medium.
On the other hand, the display control apparatus receives information on the sharing target transmitted from the plurality of computer terminals via the transmission medium and information indicating the display destination, and the received information on the sharing target is received as the sharing target. The information is displayed on the display medium specified by the information indicating the display destination received together with the information until the display stop instruction is received.

  Therefore, in each computer terminal, the conference participant can easily perform the operation for specifying the information to be shared and the operation for inputting the information indicating the display destination of the information to be shared according to the support screen. Further, when the conference participant designates information to be shared only once at the beginning, the information to be shared is displayed on the display medium designated as the display destination until a display stop instruction is explicitly input. For this reason, unlike the so-called virtual desktop, for example, the amount of information transmitted from the computer terminal to the display control device can be reduced.

  Further, each computer terminal generates information indicating the position and orientation of the conference participant based on the information indicating the relationship between the seating position of the conference participant and the positions of the plurality of display media, and this information is supported. It is displayed superimposed on the screen data. For this reason, the conference participant can easily specify the display medium that is the display destination of the information to be shared without any error by an intuitive operation.

  Furthermore, since information to be shared is displayed on display media provided on different walls in the conference room, information data can always be displayed in front of the conference table regardless of the seating position, and without reversing the top and bottom. Can do. For this reason, it becomes possible to grasp the information to be shared, which is displayed by all the conference participants, accurately and without difficulty, thereby improving the conference efficiency.

  Furthermore, display control of information on a plurality of display media is performed centrally by one display control device. That is, information display functions for a plurality of display media are integrated into one display control device. For this reason, it is possible to improve the efficiency of the display control device as a control resource, thereby reducing the size and price of the system.

  That is, according to the present invention, a large-scale system configuration is not required, and information necessary for the conference can be presented to all conference participants regardless of their seating positions, thereby improving the efficiency of the conference. It is possible to provide a conference support system and a conference support method that can be improved.

Embodiments according to the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.
(First embodiment)
FIG. 1 is a schematic configuration diagram showing a first embodiment of a conference support system according to the present invention. In this system, a plurality of computer terminals (participant terminals) TM1 to TMn used by conference participants are connected to a display control server SV via a communication network NW, and the display control server SV is connected to a projector PJ. The information to be shared is selectively projected onto a plurality of screens SC1 to SC4 and SCB.

  Screens SC1 to SC4 are arranged on four wall surfaces in the conference room, that is, on the front, rear, left, and right wall surfaces. The screen SCB is provided on a conference table installed in the center of the conference room. The communication network NW is configured by, for example, a local area network (LAN).

  The projector PJ includes five projection units. These projection units are hung from the ceiling of the conference room, for example, and are positioned so as to project optical images onto the screens SC1 to SC4 installed on the four walls of the conference room and the screen SCB on the conference table. Is set.

Participant terminals TM1 to TMn are composed of, for example, personal personal computers brought into the conference room by conference participants, and are configured as follows. FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing the hardware and software configuration.
That is, the participant terminals TM1 to TMn include a central control unit (CPU) 11, and the CPU 11 is connected to the program memory 13, the data memory 14, the communication interface (communication I / F) 15, and the bus 12 via the bus 12. Input / output interfaces (input / output I / F) 16 are connected to each other.

  The communication I / F 15 transmits various commands and information data to the display control server SV according to a communication protocol defined by the communication network NW under the control of the CPU 11. For example, TCP / IP (Transmission Control Protocol / Internet Protocol) is used as the communication protocol.

  Connected to the input / output I / F 16 are an input device 17 such as a keyboard and a mouse, and a display 18 composed of a liquid crystal or the like. The input / output I / F 16 captures operation information input by the user using the input device 17. The input / output I / F 16 causes the display 18 to display support screen data and conference material data read from the data memory 14 under the control of the CPU 11.

The data memory 14 stores information data related to the present invention, such as conference data consisting of characters, photos and videos, and related data, and support screen data for supporting the operation of the conference participants. ing.
The program memory 13 stores an information acquisition control program 131 and an information transmission control program 132 as application programs necessary to implement the first embodiment of the present invention.

The information acquisition control program 131 is for acquiring information to be shared according to the operation of the conference participant, and causes the CPU 11 to execute the following processing.
(1) Read support screen data for supporting the designation operation of information to be shared and the designation operation of information indicating the display destination of the information from the data memory 14, and read the read support screen data as input / output I / O Processing to be displayed on the display unit 18 via F16.
(2) Storage connected to the data memory 14, an external memory (not shown), or the communication network NW according to a drag and drop operation of a conference participant on the displayed support screen data or a key operation on the keyboard A process of accessing a server or a web server on the Internet (both not shown) and acquiring information data such as designated meeting materials or related materials as information to be shared.
(3) A process of specifying a screen as a display destination of the acquired information data to be shared in response to a drag and drop operation of a conference participant on the displayed support screen data or a key operation on the keyboard.

The information transmission control program 132 causes the CPU 11 to execute the following processing.
(1) Generate a display request command including information data to be shared acquired by the information acquisition control program 131 and ID information for designating a screen as a display destination of the information data to be shared, and the generated display Processing for transmitting a request command from the communication I / F 15 to the display control server SV.
(2) After the display request command is transmitted, when the conference participant performs a transfer stop operation or a screen clear operation with the input device 17, the transfer stop command or the screen clear command is transmitted from the communication I / F 15 to the display control server SV. Processing to send to.

Next, the display control server SV is composed of a server computer or a personal computer, and is configured as follows. FIG. 3 is a block diagram showing the hardware and software configuration.
That is, the display control server SV also includes a central control unit (CPU) 21 like the participant terminals TM1 to TMn. A program memory 23, a data memory 24, a communication interface (communication I / F) 25, and a projector interface (projector I / F) 26 are connected to the CPU 21 via a bus 22, respectively.

  The communication I / F 25 receives various commands and information data from the participant terminals TM1 to TMn according to a communication protocol defined by the communication network NW under the control of the CPU 21. As described above, TCP / IP (Transmission Control Protocol / Internet Protocol) is used as the communication protocol.

  A projector PJ is connected to the projector I / F 26. Under the control of the CPU 21, the projector I / F 26 selectively or simultaneously operates the five projection units of the projector PJ, thereby selectively or simultaneously with respect to the screens SC1 to SC4 on the wall surface and the screen SCB on the conference table. An optical image is projected.

The data memory 24 stores information data to be shared sent from the participant terminals TM1 to TMn.
The program memory 23 stores an information reception control program 231 and an information display control program 232 as application programs necessary for carrying out the present invention.

  The information reception control program 231 causes the communication I / F 25 to receive various commands transmitted from the participant terminals TM1 to TMn, information data to be shared, and ID information for designating a screen to be displayed, and this reception. The CPU 21 is caused to execute a process of temporarily storing, in the data memory 14, information data to be shared and ID information for designating a screen as a display destination among the pieces of information.

The information display control program 232 causes the CPU 21 to execute the following processing.
(1) When a display request command is received by the information reception control program 231, the information data to be shared received together with the command and the ID information indicating the display destination screen are read from the data memory 24. Then, the projector PJ is driven and controlled via the projector I / F 26 according to the ID information representing the display destination screen, and the information data to be shared is projected onto the display destination screen.

  (2) When a transfer stop command is received by the information reception control program 231, the projector I / F 26 is instructed to continue the display operation of the information data displayed immediately before it. Further, when a screen clear command is received, a process for issuing a projection stop instruction to the projector I / F 26, thereby stopping the projection operation of the information data to be shared.

Next, the operation of the conference support system configured as described above will be described.
4A to 4C are flowcharts showing control procedures and control contents by the participant terminals TM1 to TMn, and FIG. 5 is a flowchart showing control procedures and control contents by the display control server SV.

  In the participant terminals TM <b> 1 to TMn, when the conference participant designates, for example, the display setting mode of shared information on the input device 17, the information acquisition control program 131 is activated and the support screen data is displayed on the display 18. For example, as shown in FIG. 6, the support screen data is provided corresponding to the setting windows SW1 to SW4 corresponding to the four screens SC1 to SC4 including the front, rear, right and left, and corresponding to these setting windows SW1 to SW4. And stop buttons ST1 to ST4 and clear buttons CD1 to CL4.

(1) Transmission and display of information data to be shared
In this state, the conference participant selects and designates the information window for displaying the information data to be shared by dragging and dropping the mouse or key operation on the keyboard, and this information window is displayed on the screen (for example, the left screen). Is pasted as a target screen TGW as shown in FIG.

  Then, the CPU 11 of the participant terminals TM1 to TMn detects the above operation in step S40 of FIG. 4A and proceeds to step S41, where the data memory 14, the external memory (not shown), or the communication network NW Access to a storage server connected to the Internet or a web server on the Internet, and acquire information data such as designated meeting materials or related materials as information to be shared. Then, a display request command including the acquired information data to be shared and the ID information of the display-target left screen to which the information window is pasted is generated. Subsequently, in step S42, the CPU 11 transmits the generated display request command from the communication I / F 15 to the display control server SV. Thereafter, the CPU 11 performs the acquisition processing of the sharing target information and the display request command transmission processing in steps S40 to S42 each time a predetermined time (for example, 1 second) elapses with the continuation flag being on. Run repeatedly.

  On the other hand, when the CPU 22 of the display control server SV receives the command transmitted from the participant terminal via the communication I / F 25, the CPU 22 proceeds from step S51 to step S52, and analyzes the received command. As a result of this analysis, if the received command is a display request command, the information display control program 232 is started, and the old screen display currently displayed in step S53 is erased. It is determined whether or not information data is included.

  If new information data is included, the CPU 22 designates the display destination screen to the projector I / F 26 based on the ID information of the display destination screen included in the display request command in step S55, and New information data is supplied to the projector I / F 26. As a result, the optical image of the new information data is projected from the projector PJ onto the left screen. Thereafter, each time a display request command including new information data is received from the participant terminal, the CPU 22 updates the information projected and displayed on the screen to new information.

(2) Stop transfer of information data During the transmission and display operation of the information data to be shared, the conference participant operates the stop button ST1 corresponding to the left screen in the support screen data shown in FIG. Suppose that When the CPU 11 of the participant terminal detects the operation of the transfer stop button ST1 in step S44 of FIG. 4B, it generates a transfer stop command including the ID information of the display destination left screen in step S45. Then, after the continuation flag is turned off in step S46, in step S47, the generated transfer stop command is transmitted from the communication I / F 15 to the display control server SV.

  On the other hand, when the CPU 22 of the display control server SV receives the transfer stop command, it issues an instruction to the projector I / F 26 so as to continue displaying the information data projected and displayed immediately before that. As a result, after that, on the left screen, the update display operation of the information data is stopped, and the information data immediately before the transfer stop operation is performed is continuously displayed as a still image.

(3) Clear screen
Assume that the conference participant operates the clear button CL1 corresponding to the left screen in the support screen data shown in FIG. 6 while the information data is being updated or stopped. When the CPU 11 of the participant terminal detects the operation of the clear button CL1 in step S48 of FIG. 4C, it generates a screen clear command including ID information of the display destination left screen in step S49. In step S50, the generated screen clear command is transmitted from the communication I / F 15 to the display control server SV.

  On the other hand, when receiving the screen clear command, the CPU 22 of the display control server SV gives a display stop instruction to the projector I / F 26, thereby stopping the projection operation of the still image being projected and displayed on the left screen. As a result, the information data projection operation is stopped on the left screen.

  In addition, in participant terminal TM1-TMn, the display destination of information data of a share object is provided in screen SC1-SC4 arrange | positioned on a wall surface, and a conference table by switching display destination on support screen data. It is also possible to switch between screens SCB to be displayed.

  As described above, in the first embodiment, the support terminal data is displayed on the participant terminals TM1 to TMn, and the information data to be shared is specified and displayed on the support screen by a drag and drop operation or the like. When pasted in the setting windows SW1 to SW4 of the previous screen, a display request command including the specified information data to be shared and the ID information of the display destination screen is generated, and this display request command is displayed on the display control server. Sent to SV. On the other hand, when the display control server SV receives a display request command including new information data, the display destination screen is designated based on the ID information of the display destination screen included in the display request command. The new information data is projected onto the screen by the projector PJ.

  When the stop buttons ST1 to ST4 are operated at the participant terminals during the transmission and display operation of the information data to be shared, a transfer stop command is transmitted to the display control server SV. The display control server SV stops the transfer. The information data update display operation is stopped in response to the command. Furthermore, when the clear buttons CL1 to CL4 are operated while the information data is being updated or stopped, a screen clear command is transmitted to the display control server SV. The display control server SV responds to the screen clear command. The projection operation on the screen is stopped.

  Therefore, the information data to be shared and the display destination screen can be specified and the information data can be projected and displayed on a desired screen by a simple operation using the support screen. Further, the information data can be updated and displayed at a constant cycle until the transfer stop operation is performed. For this reason, the operability of the conference participants is greatly improved. In addition, since the process of acquiring the information data to be shared is performed in each participant terminal TM1 to TMn, the processing load of the display server is reduced and the display operation is delayed as compared with the case where all the processes are performed on the display server. Can be made difficult to occur. Furthermore, since the information data to be shared is displayed on the screens SC1 to SC4 arranged on the four sides of the wall of the conference room, the information data is always displayed in the front regardless of the seating position of the conference table and the top and bottom are not reversed. Can be displayed. For this reason, it becomes possible to grasp the information to be shared, which is displayed by all conference participants, accurately and without difficulty, thereby improving the conference efficiency.

  Furthermore, the information data display function for each of the screens SC1 to SC4 is integrated into one display control server SV. For this reason, the display control server SV as a control resource can be made more efficient, and thereby the system can be reduced in size and price.

(Second Embodiment)
In the second embodiment of the present invention, in addition to the configuration of the first embodiment described above, in the participant terminals TM1 to TMn, information representing the relationship between the seating positions of the conference participants and the positions of the plurality of screens. Based on the above, icon information representing the position and orientation of the conference participant is generated, and this icon information is superimposed on the support screen data and displayed.

FIG. 7 is a block diagram showing the hardware and software configuration of the participant terminals TM1 to TMn according to the second embodiment of the present invention. In the figure, the same parts as those in FIG.
In the program memory 130, a seating information acquisition control program 133 is stored in addition to the information acquisition control program 131 and the information transmission control program 132 as application programs necessary for carrying out the second embodiment of the present invention. ing.
This seating information acquisition control program 133 is based on the information stored in the data memory 14 in advance and representing the relationship between the seating position of the conference participant and the positions of the screens SC1 to SC4 arranged on the wall surface. The CPU 11 is caused to execute a process of generating icon information representing the position and orientation of the person and displaying the icon information superimposed on the support screen data.

  With such a configuration, in the participant terminals TM1 to TMn, when the conference participant designates, for example, the shared information display setting mode on the input device 17, the information acquisition control program 131 is activated and the display device 18 displays the support screen. Data is displayed. For example, as shown in FIG. 6, the support screen data is provided corresponding to the setting windows SW1 to SW4 corresponding to the four screens SC1 to SC4 including the front, rear, right and left, and corresponding to these setting windows SW1 to SW4. And stop buttons ST1 to ST4 and clear buttons CD1 to CL4.

Furthermore, in the participant terminals TM1 to TMn, the seating information acquisition control program 133 is activated, and a seating information acquisition screen is displayed on the display 18. FIG. 9 shows an example of the seating information acquisition screen, on which the layout of the conference room is displayed. In this state, when the participant designates, for example, a user icon (for example, US2) representing his / her seating position with the pointer P, the CPU 11 represents the relationship between the seating position designated by the pointer P and the positions of the screens SC1 to SC4. Information is read from the data memory 14, and icon information indicating its own position and orientation is generated based on the read information. Then, the generated icon information is superimposed on the support screen data and displayed on the display 18. For example, as shown in FIG. 8, in the setting window SW1 corresponding to the left screen SC1 located on the back side of the participant, icon information R1 representing a front-facing state (front view) is displayed, and the participant's In the setting window SW3 corresponding to the right screen SC3 located in front, icon information R3 indicating a state of facing back (rear view) is displayed.
In this way, the participant can determine at a glance the position of the screen on which the information data to be shared is to be projected. For this reason, an operation with better intuition can be realized.

  In the above description, the participant designates the user icon (for example, US2) indicating his / her seating position with the pointer P. Instead, a sensor is provided at each seating position, and for example, the participant's ID card is provided by this sensor. The seating position information of the participant may be acquired by reading.

(Other embodiments)
In the first and second embodiments, a conference participant inputs information data to be shared and a screen to be displayed, and a display request and stop designation by operating a mouse or a keyboard. I tried to do it. However, the present invention is not limited to this, and these designations may be input using voice recognition technology. This is because, for example, a voice vocabulary representing the specified content and information representing the processing content corresponding thereto are stored in the data memory 24 in advance, and the speech vocabulary input by the conference participant using a microphone is recognized by speech recognition. This can be realized by reading from the data memory 24 information representing the processing content corresponding to the vocabulary. FIG. 10 shows an example of the speech vocabulary and the processing content corresponding to it.
Further, as described in the first embodiment, the “front-most screen” may be designated in addition to the designation of the target screen by the drag and drop operation. In this way, it is possible to share not the specific screen but the screen operated by the conference participants.

  Further, as other designation input means, one that recognizes gesture gestures (gestures) of conference participants can be considered. In this case, a camera is installed in the conference room, the participant's figure is imaged by this camera, and a gesture gesture pattern is recognized from the image data by, for example, a pattern recognition technique. And according to this recognition result, it can implement by performing the operation | movement corresponding to each instruction | indication of the display request by a conference participant, its transfer stop, and a screen clear.

For example, when a conference participant manually indicates a position associated with information to be shared on the table, the corresponding information data is selected. If the conference participant moves to an arbitrary screen position as it is, the selected information data is displayed on this screen. Further, when a gesture is held by a conference participant, the display operation of information data on the screen is stopped and the display on the screen is cleared.
Note that the above-described gesture imaging and recognition can be performed at each participant terminal using a camera and an image recognition function provided in the terminal.

  In each of the above embodiments, the case where an optical image is projected onto each of the screens SC1 to SC4 and SCB using the projector PJ has been described as an example. However, a thin display such as a liquid crystal is used instead of each of the screens SC1 to SC4 and SCB. The information data to be shared may be selectively or simultaneously displayed on these displays.

  In addition, the number and configuration of the participant terminals TM1 to TMn, the control procedure and control contents by the information acquisition control program 131 and the information transmission control program 132, the configuration of the display control server SV, the information reception control program 231 and the information display control program The control procedure and control contents according to H.232 can be implemented with various modifications without departing from the gist of the present invention.

  In short, the present invention is not limited to the above-described embodiments as they are, and can be embodied by modifying the components without departing from the scope of the invention in the implementation stage. Moreover, various inventions can be formed by appropriately combining a plurality of constituent elements disclosed in the above embodiments. For example, some components may be deleted from all the components shown in each embodiment. Furthermore, you may combine suitably the component covering different embodiment.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS It is a schematic block diagram which shows 1st Embodiment of the meeting assistance system concerning this invention. It is a block diagram which shows the hardware and software structure of a participant terminal used with the meeting assistance system shown in FIG. It is a block diagram which shows the hardware and software structure of the display control server used with the meeting assistance system shown in FIG. It is a flowchart which shows the control procedure and control content by the participant terminal shown in FIG. It is a flowchart which shows the control procedure and control content by the display control server shown in FIG. It is a figure which shows an example of the support screen data displayed in the participant terminal shown in FIG. It is a block diagram which shows the hardware and software structure of the participant terminal concerning 2nd Embodiment of this invention. It is a figure which shows an example of the support screen data displayed in the participant terminal shown in FIG. It is a figure which shows an example of the arrangement configuration in a meeting room. In the meeting support system concerning other embodiment of this invention, it is a figure which shows an example of the relationship between the audio | voice vocabulary used when performing the designation | designated input of information with a speech recognition technique, and a processing content.

Explanation of symbols

  TM1 to TMn: Participant terminal, NW: Communication network, SV: Display control server, PJ: Projector, SC1-SC4 ... Screen arranged on wall surface, SCB ... Screen provided on conference table, SW1-SW4 ... Screen setting window ST1-ST4 ... Transfer stop button, CL1-CL4 ... Clear button, US1-US3 ... Conference participant, R1, R3 ... Icon information, 11, 21 ... CPU, 12, 22 ... Bus, 13, 23 ... Program memory, 14, 24 ... Data memory, 15, 25 ... Communication interface, 16 ... Input / output interface, 17 ... Input device, 18 ... Display device, 26 ... Projector interface, 131 ... Information acquisition control program, 132 ... Information transmission control program, 133 ... Sitting information acquisition control program, 23 ... information reception control program, 232 ... information display control program.

Claims (2)

A plurality of computer terminals respectively used by a plurality of conference participants seated in the conference room;
A display device for displaying information on a plurality of display media arranged on different wall surfaces in the conference room;
A display control device connectable to each of the plurality of computer terminals and the display device via a transmission medium,
The plurality of computer terminals are:
Means for generating support screen data for supporting a designation operation of information to be shared and a designation operation of information indicating a display destination of the information, and displaying the generated support screen data on a display unit of the computer terminal; ,
Based on the information indicating the relationship between the seating position of the conference participant and the positions of the plurality of display media, information indicating the position and orientation of the conference participant is generated, and the generated information is used as the support screen data. Means for superimposing it on the display unit,
In accordance with the designated operation of the conference participant based on the displayed support screen, the corresponding share target information is acquired, and means for recognizing information indicating the display destination of the share target information;
Means for transmitting the acquired information to be shared and information indicating the display destination to the display control device via the transmission medium;
Means for accepting an input of a display stop instruction for the information to be shared by the conference participant, and transmitting information representing the display stop instruction to the display control device via the transmission medium;
The display control device includes:
Means for receiving information to be shared transmitted from the plurality of computer terminals via the transmission medium, information indicating the display destination, and information indicating a display stop instruction;
Means for displaying the received sharing target information on a display medium specified by the information indicating the display destination received together with the sharing target information until the display stop instruction is received. A unique conference support system. A plurality of computer terminals respectively used by a plurality of conference participants seated in a conference room, a display device for displaying information on a plurality of display media arranged on a plurality of different wall surfaces in the conference room, and the plurality of computers A conference support method used in a system comprising a terminal and a display control device connectable to the display device via a transmission medium,
The plurality of computer terminals generate support screen data for supporting a specification operation of information to be shared and a specification operation of information indicating a display destination by the conference participants, and the generated support screen data is used as the computer. The process of displaying on the display part of the terminal,
The plurality of computer terminals generate information representing the positions and orientations of the conference participants based on information representing the relationship between the seating positions of the conference participants and the positions of the plurality of display media. A process of superimposing the received information on the support screen data and displaying it on the display unit;
The plurality of computer terminals acquire corresponding sharing target information in accordance with a designated operation of the conference participant based on the displayed support screen, and recognize information indicating a display destination of the sharing target information The process of
A process in which the plurality of computer terminals transmit the acquired information to be shared and the information indicating the display destination to the display control apparatus via the transmission medium;
The display control device receives information to be shared and information indicating the display destination transmitted from the plurality of computer terminals via the transmission medium;
The display control device includes a step of displaying the received sharing target information on a display medium specified by the information indicating the display destination received together with the sharing target information. Meeting support method.

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